Dweeber
Welcome to Dweeber, a social website that connects youth and helps them get homework done faster by working with their school friends online. Dweeber.com was created by SmartWired, a group dedicated to helping young people understand their strengths and talents, and work together more effectively with parents, mentors, and each other. SmartWired has been working with audiences around the world since 2003 to help them reach (and exceed) their potential.
Dweeber.com was started in spring of 2007 to allow young people to use the growing phenomenon of social networking to actually help them learn, study, and do homework, as opposed to getting in the way of it. We spent many months researching and envisioning the coolest site we could create that would be engaging to use, and simultaneously empower youth to share learning and help bring out their best. Homework happens — Dweeber helps get it done faster
Xtranormal It allows the student to make a machinima and the voice is computer generated based on the script they type.
If you can type, you can make movies!!
SAT Preparation Free Online SAT, ACT, + Test Prep Questions.
Free SAT Test Prep Number2.com's online test preparation courses are totally free! By creating an account you can access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to each student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more...
Filamentality Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.
Free Microsoft Screen Recorder This is a free screen recorder that embeds itself in Microsoft Office. Now you can record what you are doing and
share with other colleagues, students, etc. Just click on Download Now on the right side of the screen.
Photo Story Manual.doc A complete tutorial on how to use Photo Story by Barb Ritzheimer.
Creating ePortfolios This space has been created for educators who are considering creating an "electronic portfolio," to document their professional progress and practices. It will also be of use to teachers who are considering using e-Portfolios with students and want to learn more about them.
Just Crosswords Just Crosswords is a site of 15x15 crossword puzzles that you solve right in your Web browser. Click on the clues or the spaces in the puzzle, and then simply type to fill in the blanks. Standard puzzles use symmetric grids with lots of standard crossword words and a few words that fit the theme. Crozzle puzzles use only words that fit the theme.
Jeopardy Labs Jeopardy Labs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.
Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that’s cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn’t get any better than this!
Digital Commons at Penn State Copyright is very important to understand as you begin to produce digital media at Penn State. Copyright law is complex and sometimes intimidating. But if you ever plan to share your work publicly, on a website, blog, or ePortfolio, it is essential to make sure that any use of third-party media is legal. Fortunately, we have assembled some resources to make this process easier for you.
MusOpen - Copyright Free Classical Music Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal
hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Putsimply, our mission is to set music free."
All My Faves The ultimate site listing all your favorite sites. Just click on the logo
Financial Football Revolutionize how you experience your personal finance! A must see for economics teachers!
Wuduplz WuduPlz is a web site specializing in helping parents send useful text messages from their computers to their children’s cellphones. The text on the phones are only what the parents provide. No ad messages are sent with the messages that go out via WuduPlz. The only advertising is on the website.
Free Images on the Web Databases include: Sciences, People, Maps, Advertisements, and more
WP Clipart - nearly 24,000 safe public domain images WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format. As of Wednesday, 12/17/2008 there are 23,952 images.
ALICE
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
Educational Podcasts for Teaching and Learning
In our podcast directory, you can freely access a variety of educational content from over 5000 podcasts from different podcast channels, including a range of audio, enhanced and video channels to illustrate examples of "educational podcasting" to support effective teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities.
Here's a list a copyright free background music for powerpoints, etc.
Voicethread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. (There is a free & pay version available) Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.
Artsonia - Kids/Students Art Museum Artsonia is the largest student art museum in the world! Our dream is that every child will have an online art gallery,
preserving their masterpieces for all time!
The story of Artsonia begins with a dream that artwork created from kids around the world can be shared and enjoyed by everyone. If kids say the darndest things, imagine what they draw! Today, due to the passion of thousands of art teachers worldwide, that dream has come true.
Please enjoy the millions of pieces of kids' artwork showcased! And if you are an art educator, please join us and submit student artwork or lesson plans.
Create Timelines & Share Them
Timetoast is a great way to share your past, or even your future...
Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.
Create your own Jeopardy Game
Use the Power Point template to create your own Jeopardy Game. Provided by James Madison University.
Online Computer Tutorials based on pictures
In Pictures online tutorials are based on pictures, not words. They're the easiest way to learn computer subjects.
There's no complicated multimedia, just pictures that show exactly what to do. FREE!
Windows Moviemaker Free Tutorials
Use this site to learn all about Windows Moviemaker.
Windows Movie Maker 2 lets you create, edit, and share your movies right on your PC. It's easy to use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that rival those of expensive computer editing packages. If you don't have Windows Moviemaker installed, its a free download from Microsoft.
Cool Text Graphics Generator
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.
Tux Paint: Drawing Software Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK).It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Media-Convert
Convert and split sounds, images, videos and more online.
PDF to Word Converter
PDFUNdo.net is a free online PDF to Word converter. It's real simple to use and doesn't
require your email address or registration. You just upload your PDF document and when
the conversion is complete, download your Word document.
artPAD
Express yourself with the art.com artPAD, where you create art as unique as you are.
Penzu: Free Private Journal & Diary
Extremely fast, intuitive, and easy to use! No need to log in - get your thoughts out instantly and log in later to save to your account. Add images and bring your entries to life! With our unique image insertion, your pics won’t get in the way of your writing. Penzu was designed as a private journal first. You can write freely and never worry that someone will read your entries. Want to share what you are thinking? Send your entries to others. And if you want to keep your identity a secret, just click Anonymous!
Read the Words
Upload items such as Word documents, PDF's, webpages then select English, Spanish, or French and sit back listen to your document read back to you!
FreePlayMusic
Choose from a huge library of fully downloadable mp3's for you in presentations, etc.
Draw Anywhere - Easy online diagramming and flow charts
DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.
Slide.com
Create slide shows with music, special effects, and more!
Freeware Home Freeware Home is an indexed collection of FREE programs commonly found on the Internet around the globe that match the following definitions:
» freeware - Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
» open source - Term appeared in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code.
» shareware is NOT free. There is one form of shareware that is free for non-commercial use. It meets our definition of Freeware for individuals and is included in our collection.
Learners TV.com
Welcome to LearnersTV.com. This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine, Management and Accounting etc FREE to its visitors... This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will definitely help learners around the globe. This site will be updated daily to include more free video lecture courses, and more in various subject categories. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License.
Quizlet
Quizlet helps students learn vocabulary, study for tests, practice for SAT's/PSAT's and much more! Browse millions of flashcards
created by teachers and students from around the world.
Voki - Free Avatar Generator
Shockwave, the largest casual game destination on the web, is providing users with Voki avatars for community development. Shockwave users can express themselves through Voki speaking avatars on their Shockwave profile pages and represent themselves across their casual game entertainment experiences. Free and easy to use!
Web 2.0 Sites
A very large listing of Web 2.0 Sites. Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and its hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.
Curriki - Course of Study
Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.
Dweeber
Welcome to Dweeber, a social website that connects youth and helps them get homework done faster by working with their school friends online. Dweeber.com was created by SmartWired, a group dedicated to helping young people understand their strengths and talents, and work together more effectively with parents, mentors, and each other. SmartWired has been working with audiences around the world since 2003 to help them reach (and exceed) their potential.
Dweeber.com was started in spring of 2007 to allow young people to use the growing phenomenon of social networking to actually help them learn, study, and do homework, as opposed to getting in the way of it. We spent many months researching and envisioning the coolest site we could create that would be engaging to use, and simultaneously empower youth to share learning and help bring out their best. Homework happens — Dweeber helps get it done faster
Xtranormal
It allows the student to make a machinima and the voice is computer generated based on the script they type.
If you can type, you can make movies!!
SAT Preparation
Free Online SAT, ACT, + Test Prep Questions.
Free SAT Test Prep
Number2.com's online test preparation courses are totally free! By creating an account you can access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to each student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more...
Filamentality
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.
Free Microsoft Screen Recorder
This is a free screen recorder that embeds itself in Microsoft Office. Now you can record what you are doing and
share with other colleagues, students, etc. Just click on Download Now on the right side of the screen.
Photo Story Manual.doc
A complete tutorial on how to use Photo Story by Barb Ritzheimer.
Creating ePortfolios
This space has been created for educators who are considering creating an "electronic portfolio," to document their professional progress and practices. It will also be of use to teachers who are considering using e-Portfolios with students and want to learn more about them.
Just Crosswords
Just Crosswords is a site of 15x15 crossword puzzles that you solve right in your Web browser. Click on the clues or the spaces in the puzzle, and then simply type to fill in the blanks. Standard puzzles use symmetric grids with lots of standard crossword words and a few words that fit the theme. Crozzle puzzles use only words that fit the theme.
World Panoramic Photography
Interactive panoramic photography of cites, places, oceans, and much more!
Jeopardy Labs
Jeopardy Labs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.
Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that’s cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn’t get any better than this!
Digital Commons at Penn State
Copyright is very important to understand as you begin to produce digital media at Penn State. Copyright law is complex and sometimes intimidating. But if you ever plan to share your work publicly, on a website, blog, or ePortfolio, it is essential to make sure that any use of third-party media is legal. Fortunately, we have assembled some resources to make this process easier for you.
MusOpen - Copyright Free Classical Music
Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal
hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Putsimply, our mission is to set music free."
All My Faves
The ultimate site listing all your favorite sites. Just click on the logo
Financial Football
Revolutionize how you experience your personal finance! A must see for economics teachers!
Wuduplz
WuduPlz is a web site specializing in helping parents send useful text messages from their computers to their children’s cellphones. The text on the phones are only what the parents provide. No ad messages are sent with the messages that go out via WuduPlz. The only advertising is on the website.
Free Images on the Web
Databases include: Sciences, People, Maps, Advertisements, and more
WP Clipart - nearly 24,000 safe public domain images
WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format. As of Wednesday, 12/17/2008 there are 23,952 images.
Typing Adventure: Free Online Typing Tutor
ALICE
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
Educational Podcasts for Teaching and Learning
In our podcast directory, you can freely access a variety of educational content from over 5000 podcasts from different podcast channels, including a range of audio, enhanced and video channels to illustrate examples of "educational podcasting" to support effective teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities.
Here's a list a copyright free background music for powerpoints, etc.
Voicethread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. (There is a free & pay version available) Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.
Newspaper Clipping Image Generator
Create your own authtentic newspaper headlines and story with this online generator.
Artsonia - Kids/Students Art Museum
Artsonia is the largest student art museum in the world! Our dream is that every child will have an online art gallery,
preserving their masterpieces for all time!
The story of Artsonia begins with a dream that artwork created from kids around the world can be shared and enjoyed by everyone. If kids say the darndest things, imagine what they draw! Today, due to the passion of thousands of art teachers worldwide, that dream has come true.
Please enjoy the millions of pieces of kids' artwork showcased! And if you are an art educator, please join us and submit student artwork or lesson plans.
Create Timelines & Share Them
Timetoast is a great way to share your past, or even your future...
Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.
Create your own Jeopardy Game
Use the Power Point template to create your own Jeopardy Game. Provided by James Madison University.
Online Computer Tutorials based on pictures
In Pictures online tutorials are based on pictures, not words. They're the easiest way to learn computer subjects.
There's no complicated multimedia, just pictures that show exactly what to do. FREE!
CustomGuide - Free, Printable Quick Reference Guides & Cheat Cheats!
Offers cheat sheets & quick reference guides for ALL versions of Office!
Windows Moviemaker Free Tutorials
Use this site to learn all about Windows Moviemaker.
Windows Movie Maker 2 lets you create, edit, and share your movies right on your PC. It's easy to use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that rival those of expensive computer editing packages. If you don't have Windows Moviemaker installed, its a free download from Microsoft.
Cool Text Graphics Generator
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.
Tux Paint: Drawing Software
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK).It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Media-Convert
Convert and split sounds, images, videos and more online.
PDF to Word Converter
PDFUNdo.net is a free online PDF to Word converter. It's real simple to use and doesn't
require your email address or registration. You just upload your PDF document and when
the conversion is complete, download your Word document.
artPAD
Express yourself with the art.com artPAD, where you create art as unique as you are.
Penzu: Free Private Journal & Diary
Extremely fast, intuitive, and easy to use! No need to log in - get your thoughts out instantly and log in later to save to your account. Add images and bring your entries to life! With our unique image insertion, your pics won’t get in the way of your writing. Penzu was designed as a private journal first. You can write freely and never worry that someone will read your entries. Want to share what you are thinking? Send your entries to others. And if you want to keep your identity a secret, just click Anonymous!
Read the Words
Upload items such as Word documents, PDF's, webpages then select English, Spanish, or French and sit back listen to your document read back to you!
FreePlayMusic
Choose from a huge library of fully downloadable mp3's for you in presentations, etc.
ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator
Welcome to ToonDoo! Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss
Draw Anywhere - Easy online diagramming and flow charts
DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.
Slide.com
Create slide shows with music, special effects, and more!
Freeware Home
Freeware Home is an indexed collection of FREE programs commonly found on the Internet around the globe that match the following definitions:
» freeware - Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
» open source - Term appeared in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code.
» shareware is NOT free. There is one form of shareware that is free for non-commercial use. It meets our definition of Freeware for individuals and is included in our collection.
Learners TV.com
Welcome to LearnersTV.com. This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine, Management and Accounting etc FREE to its visitors... This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will definitely help learners around the globe. This site will be updated daily to include more free video lecture courses, and more in various subject categories. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License.
Quizlet
Quizlet helps students learn vocabulary, study for tests, practice for SAT's/PSAT's and much more! Browse millions of flashcards
created by teachers and students from around the world.
Voki - Free Avatar Generator
Shockwave, the largest casual game destination on the web, is providing users with Voki avatars for community development. Shockwave users can express themselves through Voki speaking avatars on their Shockwave profile pages and represent themselves across their casual game entertainment experiences. Free and easy to use!
Web 2.0 Sites
A very large listing of Web 2.0 Sites.
Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and its hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.
Curriki - Course of Study
Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.
MIT OpenCourseWare for Students & Teachers
Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.